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San Diego-based NextWave Wireless, a provider of hardware and software for the mobile market, said Thursday that it has created two new business units focused on mobile multimedia and wireless broadband. The firm said that its new NextWave Mobile Products unit will include its PacketVideo subsidiary and the company’s semiconductor development group, and will be headed by James Brailean. NextWave’s new Network Products unit will include its IPWireless and GO Networks subsidiaries. That unit will be headed by William Jones, who is CEO of IPWireless. NextWave purchased PacketVideo in 2005, and IPWireless and GO Networks were both acquired in 2007.
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Despite regulatory changes, incumbents such as Bell and Telus hold about 84 per cent of the market. Brownlee Thomas explains why she thinks users should start considering some of the up-and-coming competitors
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When multiple applications are crowded into one server, the potential for trouble from new attacks increases, according to an expert from research firm Gartner. Greg Young offers some alternatives
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As Rogers conducts trials of instant updates to its subscribers, industry watchers are complaining the company would be violating net neutrality principles by modifying Web content. The founder of People for Internet Responsibility speaks out
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The company issues a notice in advance of Patch Tuesday that involves a remote code execution vulnerability found in all currently supported versions of Windows, ranging from Windows 2000 SP4 to Windows Vista
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Paul Marcoux joined the network gear maker from American Power Conversion only about eight weeks ago, but he already has plenty of thoughts on how the data centre could run more like an electricity meter
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The co-founder of Wikipedia is set to debut the beta of a potential open source challenger to Google and Yahoo!, but analysts see major roadblocks to business adoption. One Canadian firm begs to differ
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Los Angeles-based Oversee.net said Thursday morning that it has acquired Moniker, a provider of domain name registration, asset management, and monetization services. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Moniker, which is based in Florida, focuses on the domain name - “domainer” - market, and offers name registration, escrow, traffic monetization, domain auctions, and other domain name portfolio services. According to Oversee, the firm will be led by current President Monte Cahn, and will remain in Pompano Beach, Florida. Oversee.net operates its own domain name services, including DomainSponsor and SnapNames, along with consumer financial services site Low.com.
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Lake Forest-based WD is taking aim at power consumption in the firm’s hard drive line, saying Thursday that it has rolled out a new, power-optimized version of its WD AV hard drives. According to WD, its new Greenpower family of hard drives reduces power consumption by over 40 percent over standard hard drives. The new power optimized drives are targeted at DVRs, surveillance systems, and IP gateways. WD said the new drives are available at 500 GB, 750GB, and one terabyte capacities. WD is a major manufacturer of computer hard drives.
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Two children of Intel employees will be included in the Storage Visions Conference panel “I’m Your Future, Hear Me Roar” on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 4:15 p.m. at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas. Middle school through college students will join a panel to discuss how the upcoming generation use technology today and their hopes and expectations for the future. Intel will participate in several other panels at the show, as well as demonstrate their latest ultra-small Intel® Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive. For a preview of the “I’m Your Future” panel go to: Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show (Nov. 14 archives: Industry Guest: Storage Visions 2008.)
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